Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

Tedha medhaCommuters queue up outside Dadar TT thankfully with masks on waiting for a busJar of happinessTo keep you cool in summers Swasti Mehta has started making pudina punch a refreshing mint and lemon cooler That she has Downrsquos Syndrome never got in the way of her love for experimenting in the kitchen She first made the punch in December last year for her parents and brother Aarsh Slowly it became a ritual It was but obvious this was going to soon turn into a venture Speaking about his 26yearold sisterrsquos journey Aarsh tells us ldquoShe has never let Downrsquos Syndrome come in the way of her dreamsrdquo You can buy a bottle by DMing Aarshrsquos account quillninja It costs R200 and they deliver to Mumbai Navi Mumbai and ThaneNo need to be anxiousSingersongwriter Ilina Hats has been keeping busy this lockdown Her latest release is a club banger Anxious with Singaporean artiste Elsa Mickayla Though the song is upbeat and groovy therersquos a very personal story attached to it ldquoI wrote Anxious last year in the lockdown after having an argument at about 3 am Anxious simply put is about hypocritical love The insanity that surrounds love is what inspired the songrdquo says Hats Her main objective with this song and her music in general is to put the light on subjects wersquod rather not discussMore on Love and Darling in cricketMartin LoveFredun E Devitre a popular pleasant and purposeful sports commentator who appeared in our living rooms long before colour television sets hit the market wrote to us the other day in response to our May 2 2021 cricket item When Australia had Darling Sleep and others on the Daily Dossier page It had dwelled on the peculiar names of Australian players who toured India in 197980 for a sixTest series Over to Fredun ldquoIt reminded me of the tale I read many moons ago about Joe Darling who captained Australia in 21 Tests and was skipper on four tours to England including the 1902 one with Victor Trumper playing under himFredun E DevitreldquoThe story goes that he was batting in a firstclass match with a cricketer called Harry Love at the other end When Joe hit the ball into the covers and called for a single the exchange between the two went thus Batsman Joe lsquoCrsquoMon Loversquo Nonstriker Harry lsquoNo not now Darlingrsquo Perhaps the tale is apocryphalrdquo Incidentally says Fredun three Darlings played Test cricket for AustraliamdashJoe Len and Rickmdashthough in different eras He also recalled Martin Love the dashing batsman who represented Australia in 2002 and 2003 ldquoAnd in England Harry Love played for Sussex and Jim Love for Yorkshire besides three ODIs for England And there was even a Ben Spendlove who played for Derbyshirerdquo wrote Fredun Cricket trivia at its finest and loveliestStories about life on Indiarsquos bordersIn 2018 Samarth Mahajan a young filmmaker set out to explore how everyday people deal with the consequences of living along Indiarsquos borders His partly crowdfunded project coproduced by All Things Small and Camera And Shorts Borderlands is finally having its world premiegravere at DOKfest Muumlnchen Germany this month The film has stories in five languagesmdashManipuri Punjabi Hindi Bengali and Nepalimdashfrom across Indiarsquos border areas ldquoResearching shooting and collating such diverse stories and that too authentically took some time We kept meeting people who found hope in the most dire of situations which was aweinspiring This would not have been possible without the unwavering support of our backers and the warmth our crew received from people across the Indian subcontinentrdquoTech to weigh babies is a winnerThe Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence recently won big at FastCompany 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards The independent nonprofit institute with headquarters in Mumbai has spent the last three years developing an AIpowered technology to detect low birth weight babies millions of whom are missed each year due to a number of reasons Once developed it will record accurate timely geotagged and tamperproof data and support rural frontline workers in prescribing homebased care or medical intervention The tech which can eventually work as a feature on the mHealth app was selected as the winner in the Best World Changing Idea APAC category a finalist in the Experimental category and also received an honourable mention in the Developing World Technology category ldquoThere is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times So itrsquos important to recognise organisations that are using their ingenuity impact design scalability and passion to solve these problemsrdquo says Stephanie Mehta editorinchief of Fast Company ldquoOur journalists have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of 2020rdquo